RACF Contract Job Trends in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 494 543
Rank change year-on-year -6 +49 +214
Contract jobs citing RACF 12 34 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.88% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 8
10th Percentile £463 £463 £521
25th Percentile £501 £505 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -3.92% +12.04%
75th Percentile £600 £699 £697
90th Percentile - £750 £733
UK median daily rate £585 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -7.33% +5.21% +5.45%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,382 3,850 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.69% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,584 3,763
10th Percentile £214 £218 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RACF in England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +32 7 £600 - 7
London +1 4 £500 -26.74% 3
North of England -15 1 - - 10
Yorkshire -16 1 - - 4
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Administrator
1 7 (58.33%) Security Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Programmer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) CICS Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Support
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Mainframe
2 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) zOS
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Security Auditing
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
3 5 (41.67%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Data Sharing
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
7 1 (8.33%) Batch Processing
7 1 (8.33%) Change Control
7 1 (8.33%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (8.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (8.33%) JCL
2 1 (8.33%) PL/1
2 1 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
1 6 (50.00%) IBM Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) IBM